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Ethan James

Survival chance lost after hospital misdiagnosis

A 65-year-old man died after being misdiagnosed at Mersey Community Hospital, a coroner has found. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS)

A 65-year-old charity shop volunteer who died from internal bleeding was wrongly diagnosed in hospital and lost a chance of survival, a coroner has found.

Alexander Frank Patterson, who lived in northwest Tasmania with his father, felt unwell and vomited blood on the morning of May 22, 2023.

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